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Minot, North Dakota Datasheet.

Small town, hot white women, family values, 7 months of blistering cold, beautiful landscape, Native Americans.

Here’s what to do if you get stuck here for more than a few days.

“Welcome.”

   

City Overview:

Minot is a medium-sized town in North Dakota, the middle of America.

[read: Population: 50-100k ppl. + Size:15-50 square miles. = Population density: 6400ppl/sq. mi.]

It has an international airport, a university, 75 bars, 35 churches, 6 laundromats.

These random facts are important in a *datasheet* I’ll put up soon entitled, “Small Town Game: How to Make The *Most* Out of Your Shitty City.”

Not a whole lot here, definitely "off the beaten path." Visitors usually pass through on their way to other places, because it is a railroad hub.

North Dakota is known for Teddy Roosevelt’s buffalo-hunting escapades. He wrote of the state:

"It was here the great romance of my life began!"

Roosevelt was killing big game and riding horseback with Indians in a lawless land, though.

Inspiring, nonetheless.

By the way, there are a bunch of Indian reservations around Minot if you’re interested in Indians. Go to http://www.nd.gov/indianaffairs for more info about Indians in the area.

Check out the Minot Wikitravel page for more detailed info about hotels and places to eat. You like wings? OK, perfect.

Girls:

Blonde, blue eyed girls of Nordic ancestry. Nordic white girls of good stock. Good at sports. Conservative, family oriented. Friendly. Can be aggressive. [Ride motorcycles, big hands, used to doing farm work, surprisingly not lesbians? Midwestern style brashness, and so on].

Moving forward.

Median girls are 7-8. You will find an abundance of 7-8s.

   

   

   

   

"Wow. Not. Bad."

Let me take a quick drink of water, excuse me.

OK. Back.

Those first two are from Backpage. Second two are from Facebook.

Tight bodies, generally fit. Get them while they're young before they get married. 18-22.

Lodging:

Plenty of hotels, standard, $50/night median. No point in getting anything fancy.

If staying longer-term, ask locals for leads, they might know any unlisted houses for rent or a roommate situation, check the local paper and call IRET or IMM, local brokerages.

Daygame spots:

Starbucks on Burdick Expressway: sit around, do work, you’ll get a steady IV drip of prospects walking in.

Minot State University: walk around campus, library, student halls, wellness center, approach people, say you’re using the facilities to work.

Dakota Square Mall: Talk to shop clerks, patrons, etc.

Downtown area: lots of local shops, quirky industrial spaces turned into lofts. Stroll around and see what’s up.
YMCA/ ASK Fitness: Good places to pickup.

Lake Sakakawea: when the weather warms up.

Garage/yard Sales: “Garage/Yard Sailing” is a thing here. They are abundant when the weather warms up and people love them.

Nightgame spots:

“Everything closes at 1am.”

Night game is sketchy. Social groups are cliquey and everyone kind of knows each other some way.

Lots of biker bars with guys getting obliterated and wanting to fight and not enough girls to make it worth the trouble.

Most watering holes are bars-slash-casinos.

Come with some cash saved up and gamble the night away with drunk locals. Until 1am. Then go home.

Best to go early, scope it out and leave early or link up with locals and go to a bonfire or something afterwards.

Highlights:

Ebineezer's: Irish pub with good food.

Nola's: Good local scene, divey, pool tables, casino games.

The Original: Live bands, lots of people, can pull some hotties from here.

Sports on Tap: Loud "sports bar," meaning sports is playing in background on mute while 10 year old "Top 100 Hits" play obscenely loud, overtaking all your senses.

Dance floor, college people bros and their female counterparts dressed up getting hammered on 30oz. beers and shots.

“Good luck.”

Buffalo Wild Wings: Great place to pickup. Diverse crowd.

Cenex: Cenex is a gas station. In small towns like Minot gas stations that are open late like Jug and Loaf are the late pizza spots of big cities where drunk girls go to get a slice.


Ease of Approaching:

Girls are friendly enough, if they are interested, they will let it be known, if you have game.

Not as sexually open as big cities on the front end, but put some work in and they will open up.

Be sure to isolate.

You can always find a girl by herself, plenty of good looking white girls around. Lots of girls are in relationships/married or about to be married. Relationships are taken seriously. Traditional family values are strong here.

However, if you can telegraph your difference, like you look Spanish or Black, or you are from a better place and play that card right, there is definitely a market for you, because you are exotic. You’re like a gold nugget. I look white but girls’ ears perk up when I speak Spanish.

Guys are white, don’t dress well, bad haircuts, and are corny with no game. Period. But the girls are used to that, they are corny, too. Good for you and me.

Sight seeing:

Not much to see in town. Venture around a bit, there are lakes nearby, plenty of fishing, rolling hills, some canals and a river. Gorgeous in the summer. Brutal in the winter.

"Minot itself is not much to look at but the surrounding landscape is pretty."

For whatever that’s worth.

Everything worth doing recreationally is on Wikitravel page or ndtourism.com. I won’t go into it here.

General tip for any unfamiliar location: Ask someone where the action is that cross-sections with your interests: mountain biking, fishing, hunting, and so on. Or what lake people are getting drunk at (Lake Sakakawea). There is a lot of that stuff going on here. Many outdoor activities.

Prices:

Cost of living is low. Cigarettes are $4.50. 6 pack of Rolling Rock is $6.99. Quart of Sobieski vodka is $10.99. 1bedroom apartment is $650. Taxi going three miles is $10.

Logistics:

You'll need a car. If you don't have one, buses run but aren't worth the trouble. If without vehicle, you’re better off walking, biking or taking cabs. Walking/biking will take some time but is doable. Cabs are available.

Have a car.


Pros:

-Hot chicks that are untainted by city hypergamy pressures.
-Beautiful scenery.
-Quiet.
-Friendly.
-Trusting; neighborly.
-Low crime.
-Low unemployment.
-Clean air.
-No riff raff-bums/crazies.
-Laid back, slow pace, easy living.

Cons:

“Fu-f-fu-fufu-faahh-f-faff-fa--freezing in the winter.”
-Boring.
-Small.
-Podunk lack of “culture.”
-Insular.


In summary: If you really like hot white girls, North Dakota is your place. Check out Mixx’s thread. If you like winter, again, this is your spot. It’s boring and in the middle of nowhere. And so on.

"Bye."

   

[Vaun]

[LINUX]

[Barry Scrotada]

Still waiting on the Zanesville datasheet...

[scotian]

I almost went to Minot but no one else I was working with wanted to make the two hour drive from a shit hole called Estevan, Saskatchewan that I was unfortunate enough to work in for six months a couple of years ago. The city used to market to Canadians "Why not Minot?" with billboards and radio ads, apparently they have a decent mall there? All I know about ND is from going to an even smaller shit hole called Noonan to buy cheap smokes and booze, there's a decent Mexican place there and we'd joke that we're going "south of the border" to get some Mexican. Even if there are some pretty cute, down-to-Earth chicks in these places, small towns on the prairie provinces of Canada and the upper mid-west of the USA really do suck.

[Bones707]

I have been trying to go up to the upper Midwest as the chicks from there are way more nicer and hot than the shit I get here in the Bay Area (even the ones from cities of the upper MidWest......). I say this because I'm into blonde Germanic girls (increasingly rare in California). So far, it looks like it's my place to go (I want to move out to Minneapolis by September of next year) as there's lots of work there in the trades and not many illegals up there (I'm Mexican-American and I'll admit that illegals mess up the wages for the trades). Excellent datasheet though.

[Pete]

I went to Minot for a few days last December.

Everything is accurate in the datasheet. about 75% of all the women I saw were pretty good looking. Stuff is cheap there. I paid about $150 for 3 nights at the hotel, I paid that daily at Williston.

[Courage Reborn]

Thanks for the datasheet. How long were you there? How and how many did you swoop?

[VolandoVengoVolandoVoy]

I don't see any 8s

1st pic: 7+
2nd pic: 6+/7-
3rd pic: 5s
4th pic: 6ish

[The Beast1]

When I was 14 years old my family would go on beach trips.

Long story short, I met the most attractive half native american half irish girl. Long story short, got a good BJ on the sand but missed out on the bang because she got her period.

There are some solid super hot dime pieces hanging out in that part of the country. Between the honey boo boos and the cletus' looking boys they'll definitely give any city girl a run for her money.

[Wuking]

I worked in Williston, ND for 2 years. Did not see any of these hot females, however did see a lot of overweight people.

[262]

Rhetorical question I asked myself: "Isn't there an Air Force base in Minot?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minot,_Nort..._employers

Answer: "Why yes, 262, your memory is correct. In fact, they're the largest employer by quite a margin. Stands to reason the place would be a sausage-fest then, no?"

That being said, I've never been. So maybe the Air Force guys are stuck on base and/or have no game.

(06-08-2015 01:37 AM)Bones707 Wrote:  

I want to move out to Minneapolis by September of next year

I look Mexican and lived in Minneapolis for a few years. Granted that was in my pre-game days, but what I can tell you is that Minneapolis will be more like Chicago than Minot, due to the size of the cities. Obviously more blondes than San Francisco or Chicago, but I think you'll have to pay about two points in terms of looks & attitude, compared to what the OP pictures for Minot, in order to get Minny's big city amenities and job market.

[JacksonRev]

(06-08-2015 07:48 PM)262 Wrote:  

Rhetorical question I asked myself: "Isn't there an Air Force base in Minot?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minot,_Nort..._employers

Answer: "Why yes, 262, your memory is correct. In fact, they're the largest employer by quite a margin. Stands to reason the place would be a sausage-fest then, no?"

That being said, I've never been. So maybe the Air Force guys are stuck on base and/or have no game.

Air Force has more females than actual military services, higher marriage rates, and higher quality females because they don't have to do actual work. So, you don't have the same male competition influx as Army/Marines/Navy.

[h3ltrsk3ltr]

Haha^

I heard something about AF FOBs having gift bags full of chocolate bars and ipods as you leave the chow hall...

Great post though. It's always good info with these small town datasheets/reviews. If you travel a lot, you're bound to run past one. Make a quick datasheet, snap a few pics or just open one up that someone's made. This is a really cool concept.

Can we make a sub category under travel for podunk town reviews?

[Orson]

As a Minneapolis-St Paul native who has been to Minot twice (and has breezed through maybe twice more), I have to say this DS is refreshingly honest, basic, and useful!

It can be the down-to-earth simplicity, the basic stuff that gets people right - and can get through to you! For those who don't know about it, for those considering a move to the upper mid-west, you can also add the gentle, insightful regional ethnic humor of Garrison Keillor's "Lake Wobegon Days" to your reading list.
http://www.amazon.com/Lake-Wobegon-Days-...0140131612

The dry dead-pan humor is eerily accurate evocation of the region, and Minot shares this in spades.

As somebody at Amazon.com writes, "I hope to one day live in Lake Wobegon. It seems to be just the sort of backwards, yokel, land-that-time-forgot sort of place that I would feel right at home in. Keillor's journey through Lake Wobegon is warm, nostalgic, funny, and poignant. The characters are well-crafted -- sometimes lovable, sometimes zany, sometimes despicable, always believable and real."

But the Minneapolis area gave us the Coen-brothers, too! - so, sophisticated and twisted is not out of bounds here. Nor is the meek but rocker sexy funk-bro, Prince (Roger Nelson) and his music. Thus, weirdly enough, you'll find all types to go with that basic hearth and home stuff.

[Lights]

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scotian: I almost went to Minot but no one else I was working with wanted to make the two hour drive from a shit hole called Estevan, Saskatchewan that I was unfortunate enough to work in for six months a couple of years ago. 1. The city used to market to Canadians "Why not Minot?" with billboards and radio ads, apparently they have a decent mall there? All I know about ND is from going to an even smaller shit hole called Noonan to buy cheap smokes and booze, 2. there's a decent Mexican place there and we'd joke that we're going "south of the border" to get some Mexican. 3. Even if there are some pretty cute, down-to-Earth chicks in these places, small towns on the prairie provinces of Canada and the upper mid-west of the USA really do suck.

1. Yeah, "Freezin's the reason."
2. Funny.
3. Well said.

**Side note: Appreciate all your contributions on here, scotian, on behalf of the "shitholes" and how the make the most out of them. Your data along with a few others got me out to Texas and North Dakota to make money.**

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Bones707: I have been trying to go up to the upper Midwest as the chicks from there are way more nicer and hot than the shit I get here in the Bay Area (even the ones from cities of the upper MidWest......). I say this because I'm into blonde Germanic girls (increasingly rare in California). So far, it looks like it's my place to go (I want to move out to Minneapolis by September of next year) as there's lots of work there in the trades and not many illegals up there (I'm Mexican-American and I'll admit that illegals mess up the wages for the trades). Excellent datasheet though.

"If You Like Nordic/Scandinavian/Germanic Girls in the States, the Midwest is Where It's At."

Minneapolis a good choice for that. Good luck on your move.

Also, coming from the Bay, (population millions), if you have a hustler, killer mindset, and can *adapt* and *position* yourself properly, that will help you *coast* in a smaller metropolitan city like Minneapolis (population 400k).

Check this out:

Is Minneapolis the Best City in America?

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Courage Reborn: 1. How long were you there? 2. How and how many did you swoop?

1. I've been here 6 months.
2. I locked down an LTR for winter. +3 after I broke up with her. I meet girls at the gym, the mall, and at bars, at laundromats.

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262: 1. "Isn't there an Air Force base in Minot?"
2. So maybe the Air Force guys are stuck on base and/or have no game.

1. Yeah, there's an Air Force base here.

2. It's not a town *overrun* by military guys, like, for example, Norfolk, VA.

"Basers," as they are referred to by locals. Kind of in the background. They exist, but you can avoid them if you want to or seek them out if you want to.

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TheBeast1: When I was 14 years old my family would go on beach trips.

Long story short, I met the most attractive half native american half irish girl. Long story short, got a good BJ on the sand but missed out on the bang because she got her period.

Thoroughly enjoyed that vignette.

Reminds me of a trip to Myrtle Beach when I was fourteen. (Sneaking out to meet the girl at the pool.)

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I worked in Williston, ND for 2 years. Did not see any of these hot females, however did see a lot of overweight people.

Williston is a totally different place. Boomtown. Pretty much a big man-camp, right?

Minot is a more settled area two hours away. Williston is looked on by Minot locals generally as trashy, like “oil-field trash” and so on.

Can't speak for Williston.

This is what one guy on Craigslist wrote a month ago:

   

If you google: Male to Female Ration in Williston, ND., you'll find a bunch of articles of the *dearth* of women there, so yeah. Even a snarky Jezebel piece.

Maybe someone can post some info on some angles of how to hack it if you're stuck there.

[Oilrig]

I'm sorry to the OP but Minot has no girls! I've been here for about 8 months and I've come to the conclusion that there just aren't any hot single girls here. All of the local hot girls move away for college and typically don't return. The hot girls that move here are Usually married or trashy.

There are a few hot college chicks but most are from out of state and pretty trashy (lots of tattoos piercings etc). I'm on all of the dating apps/sites and I've seen some of the ugliest girls I've ever seen, no lie. Most are divorced with kids.

Now if you want to see some hot girls then grand forks and Fargo are definitely where it's at. I can confirm the other thread that there are a lot of hot white girls that love Latin guys.